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ON AUSTRALIA

A Kipling Book Recently Published.

Press Association —Copyright. London, February 23.

“Then I found myself in a new land with new smells, among a people who insisted a little too much that they also were now,” runs Rudyard' Kipling’s description of a visit to Australia in "Something of Myself and My Friends, Known and Unknown,” ntatch has been published by Macmillan and Co. “But there is no such thing at' a new people. This is the oldest people In the world. "A leading paper offered me the most distinguished honour of describing the Melbourne Cup, but I had reported race’s before, and I knew it

was not in my line. I was more.inter ested in the middle-aged men, -who had spent their lives making and managing the land. They used direct speech among eoch other, and talked political slang new’ to me. "On a warm night I attended' a congress where Labour debated whe ther some much-needed lifeboats should be allowed te be ordered from England, or whether the order should be postponed until lifeboats could be built in Australia under Labour direction at Labour prices.” Kipling says Australia ly a hard land. ”It seemed to me to be made harder for themselves by Hie action of the inhabitants, who always seemed to be a bit on edge. I also went to Sydney, which it’ populated by leisured multitudes, all in shirt sleeves, picnicking all day. They volunteered that they were new ind young, but would do- wonderful things, which promise has been more than kept.”

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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 368, 24 February 1937, Page 5

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ON AUSTRALIA Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 368, 24 February 1937, Page 5

ON AUSTRALIA Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 368, 24 February 1937, Page 5

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